Eskil Brøndbo (born 26 January 1970 in

Namsos ( sma, Nåavmesjenjaelmie) is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Namdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Namsos. Some of the villages in the municipality include Bangsund, Kl ...

) is the

drummer A drummer is a percussionist who creates music using drum The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one mem ...

in the band D.D.E. where his brother,

Bjarne Brøndbo Bjarne Arnstein Brøndbo (born 19 September 1964 in Namsos, Norway) is the vocalist and the front figure in the Norwegian rock group D.D.E. since the start in 1992. Brøndbo has previously played in the bands Humanic (1978–1985) and After Dark ( ...

is the vocalist. He is cousin of the Electronica musician Rune "Sternklang" Brøndbo. From 1985 – 1986 he was the deputy drummer for After Dark, who were the forerunners for D.D.E., but their regular drummer, Knut Håvard Lysberg, left the group. In 1990 Lysberg left and Eskil Brøndbo became the permanent drummer. After Dark changed their name to D.D.E. in 1992 and became the country's best selling band. Brøndbo is active in local politics. From 2007 he was member of Overhalla council as representing the Norwegian Labor Party, and from 2011 he was the representative and candidate for the Conservatives.

Discography

Album

*1993 D.D.E. ''Rai-Rai'' (

Percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

) *1994 D.D.E. ''Rai 2'' (

) *1996 D.D.E. '' Det går likar no'' (

) *1998 D.D.E. ''OHWÆÆÆÆÆH'' !!! (

) *1999 D.D.E. ''No e D.D.E. jul igjen'' (

) *2000 D.D.E. ''Jippi (

) *2001 D.D.E. ''Vi ska fæst — aill' mot aill (

) *2003 D.D.E. ''Vi e konga'' (

) *2005 D.D.E. ''Næ næ næ næ næ næ'' (

)

Live albums/compilations

*1995 D.D.E. ''Det è D.D.E.'' (live) (

) *2002 D.D.E. ''Her bli de liv-det beste 1992–2002'' (

)

References

External links

dde.no

mic.no
Article from the Norwegian pop and rock dictionary 1970 births Living people 20th-century Norwegian drummers 21st-century Norwegian drummers Norwegian rock drummers Male drummers People from Overhalla 20th-century drummers 20th-century Norwegian male musicians 21st-century Norwegian male musicians Musicians from Namsos {{Norway-musician-stub